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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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You can't be more horrific than life itself.

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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

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Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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In charity there is no excess.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

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